Italian Flavia Pennetta beat Chan Yung-jan from Chinese Taipei
on Sunday to win the singles' title for the WTA tournament Bangkok
Open 2007, while Chinese pair Yan Zi and Sun Tiantian was crowned
in doubles.
Seventh-seeded Pennetta advanced to the finals after beating
former World No. One and Grand Slam multi-time winner Venus
Williams in two sets at Saturday's semi-final, and moved to seize
the final glory by defeating the 18-year-old Chan 6-1, 6-3 at the
single's final match which had been postponed due to heavy
downpour.
For the doubles, top seed Chinese pair Yan Zi/Sun Tiantian had a
walk-over victory as opponent pair Ayumi Morita/Junri Namigata from
Japan abstained.
The Bangkok Open, a WTA Tier III event, started on Oct. 8 at the
National Tennis Development Center, Muangthong Thani on the
outskirts of Bangkok, offering a prize money of US$200,000.
(Xinhua News Agency October 15, 2007)